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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself

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